An isolated colony of polar bears found in southeast Greenland “inhabits a warmer climate zone, akin to the predicted future ...

A genetic analysis of polar bears in southeast Greenland found that genes related to heat-stress, aging, and metabolism are behaving differently compared to polar bears in more northern regions.

The world’s polar bear population is projected to decline by two-thirds by 2050. A new study from the University of East Anglia suggests that polar bears are undergoing rapid genetic changes, and ...

Polar bear attacks on humans are extremely rare, but experts say that shrinking sea ice is pushing them to approach inhabited ...

Meet our story’s protagonist: a female polar bear. Displaced by shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, she was forced to wander south, deeper into the Canadian Northwest Territories. Here, our lady in white ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Growing up in Canada, I always considered the Arctic part of my ...

With climate change steadily dismantling the icy habitat essential to their existence, new research suggests polar bears are rapidly rewiring their own genetics in a bid to survive. The species is ...